Encountering Ellis Island : how European immigrants entered America / Ronald H. Bayor.
"America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal...
| Uniform Title: | How things worked.
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | How things worked.
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| Physical Description: | x, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |